NAME: stephanie phelps
BIRTH PLACE: Kentucky
BIRTH DATE: 11.30.85
BIOGRAPHY
I believe my interest and love in art was seeded in me while I lived in Germany. My father was in the military, and we were sent to Freebird, Germany from 1988 to 1992. I remember the family trips to the beautiful castles and the cute elderly towns. Through these trips, my parents taught me, while I was still very young, the beauty in art. My move from Germany, which is like a magical fantasy land one reads in fairy tales, to Kentucky, which is a land more filled with woodland and country charm, showed me how art and beauty was affected and determined by culture and time. My mother is my other influence. My mother had a hobby of drawing little country landscapes and birds. She would help me color in my coloring books, and would add to the already made drawings things that I thought was genious: like when she colored stripes down barbies skirt or added polka dots to her blouse. I think these little acts in my coloring book that I cherished taught me to think more out of the box, and to look for more in what was already there.
